I decided to buy Glossika (audio) last night. The reason is ... if I abandon Russian at A2, I would at least like to be A2 across the board. Also I zone out on long commutes just passively listening to dialogs.

I've downloaded мы to my kindle. It looks so readable ... if only I knew more words, lol.

I've made a few mistakes with LingQ. Bored with the beginner 1 lessons (even if that is my real level), I imported Vasya Oblomov lyrics and a couple news articles. Now my LingQ review has some great words that I get right away ( гавно, бабке ) and some really difficult words that I really shouldn't be looking at yet, as very long Russian words still look all the same to me. I'm just promising myself I won't do it any more. I'll stick to whatever level I am and gradually I'll clear the overly difficult words out.

I have no interest in learning French, but I tried out French a while back on lingvist.io because the app looked so great. And it is a great app. But they have a lack of interest in rolling out languages for English speakers any time soon.

So morpheem looks a less developed version of lingvist. But the key is flashcard sentences based on word frequency. I went all the way through French to the end on lingvist (4971 words) and was able to read Le Comte de Monte Cristo without a lot of difficulty as long as he wasn't on a boat giving commands to lower the jib and hoist the spritsail, etc.

Hoping I can do the same with morpheem and pick up useful words more quickly ...

Xmmm wrote:I decided to buy Glossika (audio) last night. The reason is ... if I abandon Russian at A2, I would at least like to be A2 across the board. Also I zone out on long commutes just passively listening to dialogs.

I've been using that exact resource as well, doing GSR once or twice daily. What do you think so far?

It seems well-made. And it seems useful. I don't know if repeating random sentences actually helps develop fluency, but it has to help with pronunciation and developing an ear for the language ... I would think.

How about you?

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I think it's hard to tell early on. The sentences certainly get more and more complex eventually, and they seem to be organized to demonstrate moving parts of a language--but the courses are not customized to each language. There are a lot of different Russian sentences that collapse to да, for example. Doesn't seem that efficient, but overall it's super-duper-mega-hyper-efficient compared to more casual course materials (e.g., <insertlanguagename>pod.com podcasts that are 10 seconds of dialogue and 15 minutes of chatting). Still seems fairly well thought out from what I can tell so far.